Posted on 06/28/2020 1:44:25 PM PDT by jonatron
Three members of the Minneapolis City Council have been provided with a private security detail after receiving death threats for supporting proposals to defend the city’s police department in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.
A city spokesperson said the private security details ordered for council members Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe Cunningham and Alondra Cano have cost taxpayers $63,000 over the past three weeks – a rate of $4,300 per day.
News of the arrangement surfaced Friday, the same day the council voted 12-0 to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department, initiating steps toward establishing ‘peace officers’ and a new ‘holistic’ approach to public safety. The police force, which is largely white, has failed to regain the city’s trust after the death of Floyd. The new proposal would eliminate the existing police department and instead create a ‘department of community safety and violence prevention’.
While the measures have been welcomed by those protesting in the city’s streets and calling for the department to be ‘defunded’, many of the council members said they have received death threats from ‘white nationalists’ for publicly backing the proposal.
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See post #20.
Zackly. Anyone who pushed back against their decision they’ve labeled a “white nationalist.”
Actually, I don’t believe it for a minute that the death threats were from “White Supremacists”
How many people make threats and identify themselves as “White Supremacists?”
It is more likely that they received death threats from BLM and Antifa that they’d be killed if they DIDN’T vote for defunding the police.
That’s a much more likely scenario. They were scared to finger BLM/Antifa’s oppressive/threatening tactics, so they concocted the story about “White Supremacists”
This is a lot like that Rasmussen poll that says people would feel safer with BIDen. 49% Biden 42% Trump not included: 25% GoF Yourself, Pollster (Not included-Really Trump) Roughly safer solitude Trump leads about 60-40
The boogieman by any other name
“What private security firm in their right mind would take this contract?”
Blackwater?
only a five-year-old believes any of this.
anyone can send themselves an email
Another example of criminal, democratically elected government in action.
JoMa
L8r
Related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3859913/posts posted on 6/27 with 30 replies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3859730/posts posted on 6/27 with 43 replies
Where is the proof that these threats are from “white nationalists”?
The new narrative within, I am not a racist I am WHITE NATIONALIST
They’re probably all ex-MPD
Thanks for posting this.....hadn’t seen it before.
“””Where is the proof that these threats are from “white nationalists”?”””
The Standard Operating Procedure for Leftists is to claim they have been threatened when they do something stupid and the people push back.
Received death threats is the Democrats new meme. shameful
“City’s” is the correct singular possessive construction.
It is also “damn,” not “dam.”
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